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    Critical Thinking Paper Are Professional Athletes Overpaid?... Or nah Professional athletes‚ specifically in the NFL‚ NBA‚ and MLB‚ often are rewarded extremely substantial contracts and lucrative endorsement deals and it has been argued that their salaries should be reduced to smaller wages but they are paid in the way that they are for good reason; they provide the world with constant entertainment‚ work hard at their jobs and are only able to work for a small amount of time. In 2011‚ both

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    Nutrition for Young Athletes Heather Rushing Houston Community College November 11‚ 2011 Abstract Research surrounding the nutrition of young athletes suggests that they are at risk for becoming deficient in most of their vital nutrients. Most parents agree there is concern for this issue‚ but they fear they do not have enough information on how to fix the problem. This literature review includes several professionals and experienced groups’ opinions and highlights the

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    Are Athletes Paid to Much?

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    Are Professional Athletes paid too much?  Healthcare workers save lives on a daily basis for sixty thousand dollars a year‚ while professional athletes receive millions of dollars merely to entertain. Athletes should be paid well because they must train harder physically than other people‚ they must work even when they are not working‚ and their chosen profession sometimes entails great physical risks. Society believes that once a person is athletic they automatically qualify to become

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    Paying College Athletes

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    Paying College Athletes Money is everything in today’s society. We buy our food with money. We buy our clothes with money. We buy everything with money and people are constantly demanding for more‚ but what about those without a job? What about students in college who have to focus on their education and can’t get a job to make money? What about the student athletes that play sports for the school; bringing in millions of dollars of revenue every year? They get paid nothing while their coaches

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    Professional athletes are overpaid. Yes‚ they are talented. But they are talented on the court‚ field‚ pitch‚ pool but they aren’t running our country or fighting for this country’s freedom. How about saving peoples lives? Or even education? These athletes get all that money but they don’t know how to spend it. We have so many other people who should get paid that make a huge difference in this world. The NBA has the highest paid athletes. The average salary for the NBA is $5.2 million. Kobe Bryant

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    Basketball Athlete Essay

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    Perfect Basketball Athlete” During the past years‚ basketball coaches have begun to put more effort into working closely with their athletes to maximise their skill development. There are many important components essential to becoming the elite basketballer. Some of the major components that are critical to building the perfect basketball athlete include the athlete’s nutrition intake‚ the knowledge and experience of the athlete’s game‚ a positive public profile and the athletes training program/fitness

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    College Athletes Injury

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    that can happen to a person as an athlete is getting an injury. This can destroy the motivation and emotions of the person that has poured there whole life into the sport just to have it stolen away from them in a brief instant. This mental and physical damage is what many athletes who get critical injuries feel once the damage has occurred. Even with strides in the medical field making injuries less permanent‚ the fact that we cannot perfectly heal the athletes causes a lot of damage to not only

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    Are Professional Athletes Overpaid? I grew up watching professional sports. I always wanted to grow up to be just like them and secretly‚ still do. However‚ growing up‚ I was never really aware of the ridiculous amounts of money that the athletes earned and in the past few years I have been hearing many people complaining about how much the athletes make. According to my survey‚ 30 percent of people surveyed believe that athletes are overpaid. Honestly‚ I expected it to be more than that since

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    Recruiting Youth Athletes

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    Affects of Early Recruiting on Youth Athletes Molly Sanders was beyond upset. She was confused‚ disappointed‚ and above all else‚ felt more worthless than she had once believed possible. She felt a vibration in her pocket‚ but angrily tossed her phone across the table. She knew it was just her mom or dad‚ and frankly‚ she didn’t want to see her friends‚ her family‚ or even her once safe haven: the lacrosse field. The Starbucks employees all awkwardly looked up from their work as Molly burst out into

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    The way we view the athletes by Richard Sandoval Period 4‚ English We are called stupid‚ bullies‚ jocks‚ and people who are most likely take steroids to help them succeed in their sport. Yes I am talking about the athletes. Many people call athletes these things behind their backs‚ because that’s the way world sees these‚ bulky and buff athletes. We all use stereotypes all the time without knowing it. We do things we think are right but in reality they are wrong. We have met the enemy of equality

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